A B (JIRA) wrote:
> [ http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-334?page=all ]
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> A B updated DERBY-334:
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> Attachment: derby-xml_v4.stat
> derby-xml_v4.patch
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> Latest patch (_v4) resolves conflicts with recent checkins. This patch also removes
the two new XML tests from the derbyall suite, since we don't want to require that people
running derbyall have Xerces in their classpaths. The two tests can still be run manually
using RunTest. At some point we'll probably want to create a new XML suite that contains
all of the XML tests, but I think that can be submitted as a seperate patch.
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>>Add initial SQL support for XML datatype/functions in Derby, based on SQL/XML specs.
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+1 on getting this initial XML support into Derby. Even though the patch
has already in, I will try to review the new version sometime.
At some point the testing does need to be part of the regular derby
suite though I think the current approach is good. I need to understand
the dependency on xerces, and if the default XML parser supplied by the
VM can be used instead.
This is probably a good example of open source, get some initial working
functionality (incremental development) and then see if it can be
improved by others.
Dan.